MoshTMA wrote on 10/12/18 at 08:00:06:
I played a few final rounds of TMX and although the game was not perfect (Hell it wasn't really even functional online) I still really fondly remember playing it. I was a hardcore TMX player for the first year and a half that game was out. I unlocked all the trophies and beat the single player on Twisted to unlock Warthog. I really had a lot of fun with the game even if the online wasn't always reliable.
But in 2013 I noticed a lot of hackers and spammers and the online not being fixed despite numerous rounds of patches just made me give up on it. I also had also started my first post-college job in September of 2012 so that slowly killed a lot of my video games time so I cut down on TMX and played other games instead.
I thought TMX with the right balancing and patches could have been the best TM game. In the last few rounds I played of TMX when there weren't any hackers and it was pretty stable I really enjoyed the game and had a good time. It kind of felt like the game I thought it could be.
Now that's not to say that TMX even with the right patches and balancing wouldn't have had issues (8 levels despite map variants could get a little stale, the homing issue of course was probably something that would have needed a big patch that they might not have done, and the special weapons were repetitive in a lot of cases, also the single player had issues like the racing was awful.)
But I still love TMX, I put it right up there with Black and TM2 as one of my favorites of the series. The graphics still look good, the game plays well, and the level design is some of the best in the series. It just is awful that the online (a huge selling point of the game) was outright garbage for the most part. I really hope Twisted Metal gets one last chance as a franchise, a TM2 remake would be amazing to see. But I doubt it makes sense for Sony to do that economically.